Magic coin carrier or mailer



. PATENTBD FEB. 23, 1904. P. S. SHORT & W. S. POLING.

MAGIG CARRIER 0R MAILER.

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COIN LIOATION FILED MAY 21, 190

N0 MODEL.

Patented February 23, 1904.

UNITED STATES. PATENT OFFICE.

PARKER S. SHORT AND WILLIAM S. POLING, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA.

MAGIC COIN CARRIER OR MAILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 753,170, dated. February 23, 1904.

Application filed May 21, 1903. Serial No. 158,161. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, PARKER S. SHORT and WILLIAM S. POLING, citizens of the United States, and residents of Anderson, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Magic Coin Carriers or Mailers; and we declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a plan View of the blank for the coin-carrier. Fig. 2 isa front view of the coincarrier with the body-sections folded; and Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3 3, Fig. 2, of the coin-carrier folded.

The invention relates to coin-carriers for mailing purposes; and it consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings the letter a designates the carrier, which is of elongated quadrangular form and consists of the blank 6, doubled at 0 to form the front and back'of the body portion and at (Z to form the covering and holding fiap e. In the body portion, between the front and back sections thereof, are formed the tapering or wedge-form pockets f, having their openings g at the foldingline 03. The sides of each pocket are oblique or wedge form, inclining toward each other from the mouth to the bottom, which usually extends along the folding-line a short distance less than the diameter of the smallest coin.

The ends of the carrier are at right angles to the top and bottom edges thereof, and it is provided between the pockets and in the end portions and bounding the pockets with a layer of adhesive material f, which directly connects the interfolded sections of the body portion together throughout except at the parts thereof occupied by the pockets and serves to make the parts outside of said pockets of extra thickness. This is designed to equalize the thickness when coins are inserted in the pockets, so that the carrier will present to the touch of any one handling a letter containing it the feeling of a flat inclosure of rectangular form and will disguise the circular form of the coin. The openings or mouths of the tapering pockets being in line or nearly in line with the doubling of the cover-flap, which is of the same size and shape as the body portion of the carrier, there is no liability of the coin escaping from the carrier when the flap is folded down. The taper of the pocket is made quite small in order to give it a wedging hold on the coin when inserted, so that it will not be liable to move therein.

It will be noted that the outwardly-tapering pockets f are of such character as to admit of the insertion of coins of different sizes and yet retain a frictional wedging hold upon the coin.

Having described this invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

A paper coin-carrier having a body portion comprising interfolded front and back sections separated by a folding-line, and a cover-flap of the same size as said body portion and separated therefrom by a folding-line, said car- .rier having located between the sections of 

